Improvement in skates



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

EDVARD VORSTER, OF BROOKLYN, E. D., NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent- NO. 41,455, dated February 2, 1864.

l'o all whom it may conrem Be it known that I, EDWARD VoRsTER, of Brooklyn, E. 1)., in the county ot' Kings and State ot' New York, have invented a new and usefullmprovementin Skates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forinin g a part of this specification, in Which- Fgure l represents a sectional side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical crosssection of the same, the line ot' section being taken through the center of the heel of the skate. Fi g. 3 is a perspective view of the rear portion ofthe runner. Fig. 4 is a perspective View ofthe heel-bolt. Figs. 5 and 6 are similar views as in Figs. l and 2, exhibiting a modification of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention consists in providing the heel-bolt with aiiXed shoulder atthe upper end, the lower end ofthe same being made to lock with the rear end of the runner, so that by securing the fore end of the runner in the usual manner the said runner and heel-bolt are both attached at once without operating a nut on the heel-bolt.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, l will proceed to describe it.

A represents the stock of askatemade in the ordinary way. B is the runner, and O the heelbolt. The latter is formed with a shoulder, c,

at the upper portion, and with a mortise, d, at its lower part. The runner B is formed with a tongue, b, corresponding to tit the aforesaid mortise d. f represents a groove in the lower extremity of the heel-bolt O, to overlap the rear end of the runner B, for the purpose of guiding the saine more firmly; but'this groove may be omitted, as in the modification shov n in Figs. 5 and 6.

When the heel-bolt G is inserted from the top ofthe stock and the fore end of the runner B is pressed in the groove and secured at the fore end in the usual manner by Woodscrews, the back end of the runner B and the heel bolt C are at once fixed to the stock A. Thus the securing of the heel-bolt and the back end of the runner are very greatly simplied, and the cost of manufacturing the skates is lessened.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Providing the upper end of the heelbolt C with a xed shoulder, c, and forming a lock with the runner B at its lower end, so that by attaching the fore end lot' the runner in the usual way the heel-bolt and back end of the said runner are at once rmly secured to the stock ot' the skate.

EDVVD. VORSTEB.

Vitnesses:

S. KAUEMANN, J osEE KAUFFMANN. 

